Category: Current Affairs

While the Goa Medical College suspended nine senior students for ragging juniors, the Goa Velha Police registered a case against them and arrested them.All the nine senior students hailing from North India are charged by the police of forming an unlawful assembly, wrongfully restraining the junior students.

Following the filing of a fresh charge sheet by the CBI against Babush Monserrate and others, Judicial Magistrate First Class, has issued notices to the Education Minister, his son Amit, former CCP Mayor Tony Rodrigues and Rajesh Ravindran.

The quartet is accused of entering the police station and attempting to take away arrested accused housed in the station lock-up. They are also charged of obstructing the police inspector and other police personnel from carrying out their duties.

Auda Viegas of Bailancho Ekvott along with relatives of Ravina Rodrigues have given the government seven days to act against the doctors responsible for Ravina’s death.It may be recalled that Ravina Rodrigues, a young girl from Verna was operated at a private clinic in Vasco and as her condition turned critical, she was shifted to Goa Medical College where she ultimately died due to complications arising from the surgery.

Even though the Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council has taken some concrete steps in tackling the garbage issue in the town, it is the residents who are playing spoilsport and aggravating the situation.

The Curchorem Cacora Municipal Council, along with Curchorem Vikas Sanghatana has started a door to door garbage collection project that is aimed to reduce the litter on the streets. Besides, the council has installed dust bins wherever necessary in order to enable people to dispose off their garbage systematically.

Even as in South Goa, the district authorities were praised for their preparedness to tackle natural disasters by the central committee, in North Goa their unprepared ness was exposed when Sanquelim market was flooded on the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday.

Whenever there is heavy rainfall in the ghats specially at Virdi and Chorlem, the Valvanti river breaks its banks flooding the Sanquelim town lying on its banks. The problem is further aggravated as due to heavy rains, the water level at Anjunem dam touches the danger mark and authorities are forced to release the water.

Sub Divisional Magistrate Margao has directed the general manager of Majorda Beach Resort to remove sand bags at Majorda beach within seven days or face closure of the hotel for non-compliance of the order.

For the last few years, sand bags have been placed at Majorda beach in what was apparently an attempt to divert the flow of the rivulet which had resulted in not only erosion of soil at the beach but also inundation of properties upstream the rivulet.

Movement on the Konkan Railway was once again disrupted following a landslide at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning. Various trains that were en route along the Konkan Railway have been halted at different stations. Immediately affected were the Ernakulam Delhi bound Mangala express and Trivandum-Mumbai Netravati express.

South Goa Collector G P Naik did a Reagan this morning claiming that he was not aware of the govenrment keeping in abeyance the land acquisition process with regards to the construction of a mining bye pass in Curchorem.

The Collector had summoned a delegation of the people opposing the bye-pass to inform them that the demarcation of the land to be acquired would be carried out by surveyors with police protection.

Around 100 contract labourers employed in the Public Works Division, under the banner of All India Trade Union Congress, observed a day long dharna in Panjim on Wednesday demanding regularisation of their services.

As on date there are around 1,600 persons employed on contract basis with the Public Works Department some of whom have completed more than 15 to 20 years of continuous service.